Multi-Millionaire Sen. Dianne Feinstein Sues To Get Access To Money To Pay Medical Bills
By Joseph Curl
After enduring health issues that kept her away from Washington for months earlier this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is currently embroiled in a legal battle seeking greater control over the finances of her late husband’s trust.
The 90-year-old California Democrat — estimated to be one of the wealthiest people in Congress — recently filed a petition with the court, requesting that her daughter, Katherine Feinstein, be appointed as a successor trustee of late husband Richard Blum’s trust. The grounds for this request were based on the fact that the current trustees have allegedly refused to reimburse Senator Feinstein’s medical expenses.
Blum, the wealthy financier and Katherine Feinstein’s stepfather who passed away last year, has left behind the trust in question. Katherine Feinstein, herself a former superior court judge and a current San Francisco fire commissioner, filed the petition on behalf of her mother.
According to the petition filed in San Francisco Superior Court, Sen. Feinstein incurred significant medical expenses and requested reimbursement from the presumed trustees of the 1996 Marital Trust. However, it came to light that Blum did not actually name the alleged trustees in the 1996 Trust, and they were not appointed in accordance with its terms.